Off With Their HUDS!

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 3, 2006 @11:36AM from the it's-a-pun,-you-see dept.

Gamasutra has a piece looking at the move to unite player and gameworld by removing the HUD from the gameplay space. From the article: "Many elements found on a typical HUD are there not out of necessity, but out of convention; they represent a sort of 'info overkill' that, for the vast majority of players, has no impact on gameplay at all. For every piece of information you offer the player, ask, 'Is this information essential to the game experience?' In doing so, you might find that you don't need to bombard the player with quite as much data as you once thought you did."

1 of 128 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Too much to ask? by Azreal · 2006-02-03 11:41 · Score: 5, Interesting

Would it be too much to ask to make HUDS in games customizeable. Make it scriptable and also include a graphical means to create the HUD setup you like akin to the idea of customizeable home pages where you can add and remove "boxes", drag them around, and even choose what information is shown in each box.

--
$sys$droids